Remaims - Armitage + War Photographer - Duffy

Remains - Ambigulity

• corpse - memory - stays with him - power of memory - victim of war

Inside out….tosses his guts - horrific imagery

• tosses = careless - war has changed them

• Brutal,unemotional language

• Colloquial language - unable to handle memories

blood-shadow - metaphor

• stain of body = imprinted memory of dead man - can’t be washed away - overpowering guilt

• Absence of light - darkness of subject matter

light is red - colour imagery

• Danger

• Blood

• Church tabernacle

• Religious imagery - seeking comfort? Similar to role of priest - exposed to death and suffering - takes job seriously

running children….nightmare heat - contrast

• Napalm attacks - Vietnam

• Horror of war - innocence is turned to something sinister

blood stained….foregin dust - imagery

• stained = memory - scars

• Foreign dust - attempts to distance himself = how people isolate themselves from horror